The two correct answers that characterize an objective summary are:
- It withholds any personal judgments or opinions.
- It features facts about a text’s main characters, setting, and plot.
What are the characteristics of an objective summary? Select the two correct answers.(1 point)
Responses
It withholds any personal judgments or opinions.
It withholds any personal judgments or opinions.
It includes details about both major and minor characters.
It includes details about both major and minor characters.
It consists of a lengthy retelling of events in a text.
It consists of a lengthy retelling of events in a text.
It features facts about a text’s main characters, setting, and plot.
It features facts about a text’s main characters, setting, and plot.
It properly quotes dialogue and other descriptions from the book.
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What is one tip to follow when writing an objective summary?(1 point)
Responses
Paraphrase the text in your own words.
Paraphrase the text in your own words.
Make sure any judgments or opinions are your own.
Make sure any judgments or opinions are your own.
Include all story details to capture the true essence of the text.
Include all story details to capture the true essence of the text.
Use colorful adjectives to paint a vivid picture of the text.
Responses
Paraphrase the text in your own words.
Paraphrase the text in your own words.
Make sure any judgments or opinions are your own.
Make sure any judgments or opinions are your own.
Include all story details to capture the true essence of the text.
Include all story details to capture the true essence of the text.
Use colorful adjectives to paint a vivid picture of the text.
One tip to follow when writing an objective summary is:
Paraphrase the text in your own words.
What lets you know a story is written using third-person limited point of view?(1 point)
Responses
The story’s narrator directly addresses the reader by using the word you.
The story’s narrator directly addresses the reader by using the word you.
The story’s narrator uses words, such as I, me, and my when describing events.
The story’s narrator uses words, such as I, me, and my when describing events.
The story reveals the inner thoughts of many characters in the story.
The story reveals the inner thoughts of many characters in the story.
The story focuses on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of only one or two characters.
Responses
The story’s narrator directly addresses the reader by using the word you.
The story’s narrator directly addresses the reader by using the word you.
The story’s narrator uses words, such as I, me, and my when describing events.
The story’s narrator uses words, such as I, me, and my when describing events.
The story reveals the inner thoughts of many characters in the story.
The story reveals the inner thoughts of many characters in the story.
The story focuses on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of only one or two characters.
The statement that lets you know a story is written using third-person limited point of view is:
The story focuses on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of only one or two characters.
The Locket
by Kate Chopin
One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness. One of the men was heating something in a tin cup over the embers. Two were lying at full length a little distance away, while a fourth was trying to decipher a letter and had drawn close to the light. He had unfastened his collar and a good bit of his flannel shirt front.
“What’s that you got around your neck, Ned?” asked one of the men lying in the obscurity.
Ned—or Edmond—mechanically fastened another button of his shirt and did not reply. He went on reading his letter.
. . .
“Aint that a charm you got round your neck?”
“It must be, Nick,” returned Edmond with a smile. “I don’t know how I could have gone through this year and a half without it.”
The letter had made Edmond heart sick and home sick. He stretched himself on his back and looked straight up at the blinking stars. But he was not thinking of them nor of anything but a certain spring day when the bees were humming in the clematis; when a girl was saying good bye to him. He could see her as she unclasped from her neck the locket which she fastened about his own. It was an old fashioned golden locket bearing miniatures of her father and mother with their names and the date of their marriage. It was her most precious earthly possession. Edmond could feel again the folds of the girl’s soft white gown, and see the droop of the angel-sleeves as she circled her fair arms about his neck. Her sweet face, appealing, pathetic, tormented by the pain of parting, appeared before him as vividly as life. He turned over, burying his face in his arm and there he lay, still and motionless.
The profound and treacherous night with its silence and semblance of peace settled upon the camp. He dreamed that the fair Octavie brought him a letter. He had no chair to offer her and was pained and embarrassed at the condition of his garments. He was ashamed of the poor food which comprised the dinner at which he begged her to join them.
He dreamt of a serpent coiling around his throat, and when he strove to grasp it the slimy thing glided away from his clutch. Then his dream was clamor.
“Git your duds! you! Frenchy!” Nick was bellowing in his face. There was what appeared to be a scramble and a rush rather than any regulated movement. The hill side was alive with clatter and motion; with sudden up-springing lights among the pines. In the east the dawn was unfolding out of the darkness. Its glimmer was yet dim in the plain below.
. . .
A man was picking his way across the plain. He was dressed in the garb of a clergyman. His mission was to administer the consolations of religion to any of the prostrate figures in whom there might yet linger a spark of life. . .
There was a soldier—a mere boy—lying with his face to the sky. His hands were clutching the sward on either side and his finger nails were stuffed with earth and bits of grass that he had gathered in his despairing grasp upon life. His musket was gone; he was hatless and his face and clothing were begrimed. Around his neck hung a gold chain and locket. The priest, bending over him, unclasped the chain and removed it from the dead soldier’s neck. He had grown used to the terrors of war and could face them unflinchingly; but its pathos, someway, always brought the tears to his old, dim eyes.
Use the passage to answer the question.
Who is the protagonist of the story?
(1 point)
Responses
a Confederate soldier named Nick.
a Confederate soldier named Nick.
a Confederate soldier named Edmond.
a Confederate soldier named Edmond.
a serpent in a dream.
a serpent in a dream.
a priest who is passing by.
by Kate Chopin
One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness. One of the men was heating something in a tin cup over the embers. Two were lying at full length a little distance away, while a fourth was trying to decipher a letter and had drawn close to the light. He had unfastened his collar and a good bit of his flannel shirt front.
“What’s that you got around your neck, Ned?” asked one of the men lying in the obscurity.
Ned—or Edmond—mechanically fastened another button of his shirt and did not reply. He went on reading his letter.
. . .
“Aint that a charm you got round your neck?”
“It must be, Nick,” returned Edmond with a smile. “I don’t know how I could have gone through this year and a half without it.”
The letter had made Edmond heart sick and home sick. He stretched himself on his back and looked straight up at the blinking stars. But he was not thinking of them nor of anything but a certain spring day when the bees were humming in the clematis; when a girl was saying good bye to him. He could see her as she unclasped from her neck the locket which she fastened about his own. It was an old fashioned golden locket bearing miniatures of her father and mother with their names and the date of their marriage. It was her most precious earthly possession. Edmond could feel again the folds of the girl’s soft white gown, and see the droop of the angel-sleeves as she circled her fair arms about his neck. Her sweet face, appealing, pathetic, tormented by the pain of parting, appeared before him as vividly as life. He turned over, burying his face in his arm and there he lay, still and motionless.
The profound and treacherous night with its silence and semblance of peace settled upon the camp. He dreamed that the fair Octavie brought him a letter. He had no chair to offer her and was pained and embarrassed at the condition of his garments. He was ashamed of the poor food which comprised the dinner at which he begged her to join them.
He dreamt of a serpent coiling around his throat, and when he strove to grasp it the slimy thing glided away from his clutch. Then his dream was clamor.
“Git your duds! you! Frenchy!” Nick was bellowing in his face. There was what appeared to be a scramble and a rush rather than any regulated movement. The hill side was alive with clatter and motion; with sudden up-springing lights among the pines. In the east the dawn was unfolding out of the darkness. Its glimmer was yet dim in the plain below.
. . .
A man was picking his way across the plain. He was dressed in the garb of a clergyman. His mission was to administer the consolations of religion to any of the prostrate figures in whom there might yet linger a spark of life. . .
There was a soldier—a mere boy—lying with his face to the sky. His hands were clutching the sward on either side and his finger nails were stuffed with earth and bits of grass that he had gathered in his despairing grasp upon life. His musket was gone; he was hatless and his face and clothing were begrimed. Around his neck hung a gold chain and locket. The priest, bending over him, unclasped the chain and removed it from the dead soldier’s neck. He had grown used to the terrors of war and could face them unflinchingly; but its pathos, someway, always brought the tears to his old, dim eyes.
Use the passage to answer the question.
Who is the protagonist of the story?
(1 point)
Responses
a Confederate soldier named Nick.
a Confederate soldier named Nick.
a Confederate soldier named Edmond.
a Confederate soldier named Edmond.
a serpent in a dream.
a serpent in a dream.
a priest who is passing by.
The protagonist of the story is:
a Confederate soldier named Edmond.
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